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<DIV>Congratulations to Armik!!! And to David as well.</DIV>
<DIV>Catherine<BR><BR>>>> ROOD DAVID S <David.Rood@Colorado.EDU> 12/1/2010 7:11 AM >>><BR><BR>I am pleased to announce to everyone on this list that Armik Mirzayan just <BR>finished his dissertation on Lakota intonation and prosody. It's been a <BR>long time in the works, but I am very proud of what he has done. To me <BR>the most interesting finding is one that clarifies a long-standing mystery <BR>for me. You may know that the question enclitic in Lakota is <BR>sentence-final /he/, and that the e-ablaut form of the continuous (is <BR>verb-ing) enclitic is also /he/, though that one is underlying /haN/. <BR>Speakers always seem to know whether a given sentence is a continuative <BR>declarative or a question, even though the enclitics are identical. It <BR>turns out that questions have a different intonation pattern at the <BR>beginning of the sentence -- a question starts higher and often realizes <BR>the highest pitch slightly after the first stressed syllable. I guess I <BR>never thought to listen to the beginning of utterance for the clue.<BR>Of course there's a lot more, much of which is of interest to <BR>phoneticians and intonation specialists rather than just to Siouanists.<BR>The work should be available from UMI on whatever schedule they <BR>manage. Armik has lost his connection with this list due to some CU email <BR>address decision, but I've included his current email in this message if <BR>you want to write to him.<BR>Best wishes,<BR>David<BR><BR><BR>David S. Rood<BR>Dept. of Linguistics<BR>Univ. of Colorado<BR>295 UCB<BR>Boulder, CO 80309-0295<BR>USA<BR>rood@colorado.edu<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>